Comments on: Lessons learnt from having my wallet stolen

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:46:41 +0000

If you think getting your wallet stolen is a bad experience, it could get worse at some point if you use internet cafe’s to check your site’s stats.

You do need to login right?

And if you check your email you need to login into something personal once more.

My advice is to never, ever use the Internet to login to personal accounts from a computer that is not your own, a trusted friend is another thing, but Internet cafe’s is just waiting for a disaster to happen.

Virtually all these computers are trojaned and in some cases by the Internet Cafe computer administrators them self.

2 cents

By: Web Server Data is Saved

Web Server Data is Saved — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:16:34 +0000

[...] work, Al. I’m sorry to hear about the stolen wallet. Hope you have a great stay in [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:07:25 +0000

The experience kind of sucks. Nonetheless, it’s great to know that some credit card companies readily come into play when they feel you are genuinely in serious trouble.

Unfortunately, there are more things to keep in a wallet than just credit cards and cash. It could be personal identity cards, driving license and some other stuffs. Hence, I can feel it can be really frustrating whenever such cases happen.

Anyway, hope it did not dampen your trip to Brazil. Cheers!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:56:25 +0000

I never had anything stolen and i can’t really understand how can someone get your wallet? I usually keep it in my jacket, in the interior pocket. A thief should be really really good to be able to snatch it from there…

As for the card for Internet purchases, i do have one for exactly this purpose. And i don’t keep too much money on it? Why? cause I’m afraid of hackers )

By: Neale

Neale — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:34:45 +0000

Makes me think back to when I was a lot younger & within a few minutes of arriving in amsterdam my passport was stolen at the train station.

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:55:12 +0000

That’s bad; however you are fortunate that your credit card comes with such a good service.

As for hosting, you might want to use a personal paypal account for it. That’s what I normally use and it kind of ensures that I don’t have to give out my credit card information to hosting provider (not that I am paranoid about that or anything) and at the same time it ensures that my hosting account is not dependent upon a credit card.

By: Artist

Artist — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:08:25 +0000

I knew about keeping two separate cards – one for me and one for the person traveling with me. That way if one of us looses our stuff and cancels the cards, the other one is still good to go (maybe I watched Lampon’s notational vacation too many times). But as yet had not considered the separation of internet and physical accounts. Great posting and point well taken.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:53:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing your personal experience

This tips would prove useful one day.

Thanks Al

By: Tomaz Mencinger

Tomaz Mencinger — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:42:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing, those are very useful tips. You could also try having most of the internet expenses paid through Paypal if possible.

By: Webmaster Blog

Webmaster Blog — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:39:13 +0000

Bummer about the wallet, very good suggestion about using a separate card to pay for hosting expenses etc…